RHSA-2023:2282 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)
• golang: crypto/tls: session tickets lack random ticket_age_add (CVE-2022-30629)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1998676 - Network namespacing stopping containers from starting
• BZ - 2078411 - join template in podman inspect errors when new line is selected as a separator
• BZ - 2092793 - CVE-2022-30629 golang: crypto/tls: session tickets lack random ticket_age_add
• BZ - 2105173 - "podman manifest add" is not concurrent safe
• BZ - 2123251 - podman build and podman run read different seccomp.json file in the same environment
• BZ - 2141019 - Update podman to 4.2.1 or 4.3.0
• BZ - 2149774 - FailingStreak is not reset to 0 when the container starts again.
• BZ - 2150430 - SIGSEGV: segmentation violation on s390x
• BZ - 2152023 - podman: ubi8 sticky bit removed from /tmp
• BZ - 2152736 - "docker build" doesn't work anymore if it is targeting a podman server
• BZ - 2153894 - multiple dbus user processes being spawned
• BZ - 2158472 - Update shortnames.conf
• BZ - 2158632 - podman rm leaves running container behind
• BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• BZ - 2166091 - podman exec fails with Error: an exec session with ID already exists: exec session already exists
• BZ - 2182821 - podman v4.4.1 required in RHEL9.2.0

CVEs

• CVE-2022-30629
• CVE-2022-41717

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index